Challenges for public education : reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope / edited by Jane Wilkinson, Richard Niesche and Scott Eacott.
An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to c...
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Series editors' preface; 1. Challenges for public education: Perils and possibilities for educational leadership, policy and social justice; Introduction; Perils and possibilities of public education: mapping the field; The contributions of the chapters; References; PART I: Theoretical possibilities; 2. Re-imagining leadership as a resource of and for educational practice/praxis in neoliberal times; Introduction; Schools of the Future: an autobiographical account.
- Educational leadership as praxis: an initial analysisEducational leadership as praxis: an analysis for education; Discussion and conclusion; Note; References; 3. School and principal autonomy: Resisting, not manufacturing, the neoliberal subject; Introduction; School autonomy as a form of neoliberal governmentality; School principals as entrepreneurial subjects; Conclusion: spaces for resistance and social justice; Notes; References; 4. Educational leadership research and the dismantling of public education: A relational approach; The orthodoxy of systems thinking; Competing normative ends.
- TrajectoriesBeyond analytical dualism; Productive theorising; Notes; References; PART II: Local/international cases: Competing practices of a school autonomy reform; 5. Competitive entrepreneurship and community empowerment: Competing practices of a school autonomy reform; Introduction; Background to the IPS initiative; Conceptualising the neoliberalisation of school governance; Regimes of principal subjectivity; The enterprising government of principals; Community empowerment and collaboration; Concluding remarks; References.
- 6. Exploring a school improvement initiative: Leadership and policy enactment in Queensland's Independent Public SchoolsIntroduction; Theoretical framework: how can we better understand leadership in the Queensland context?; Policy context: leading Queensland's Independent Public Schools; The evolution of a reform initiative; Critiquing this approach: can we view this initiative as leadership for social justice?; Discussion and conclusion; Notes; References; 7. Depoliticisation and education policy; Introduction; The autonomous school; The autonomous school in England; Conclusion.
- AcknowledgementsReferences; 8. Oh to be in England?: The production of an un-public state system; What actually is an academy?; The success
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- of structural reforms; A fragmented school system; A school system for the public; An un-public education; Notes; References; 9. Shifting logics: Education and privatisation the Swedish way; Introduction; Aim and approach; Early contexts of change; Decentralisation, privatisation and quasi-markets; Intensified marketisation and efforts to moderate its drawbacks; The new education leaders.